fuzzel wrote:As Topologika are still going as an educational software provider, has anyone contacted them to see if they have any old stock as there are other missing games of theirs as well?

I've been in touch with Brian Kerslake, Jonathan Partington and Jon Thackray, all of Topologika as was.

They said they don't have any old stock, but Jon Thackray did mention that he had a means of rebuilding some or all released Beeb game versions from source. Sadly, my email conversation with him petered out without producing any Beeb-specific results, although it did prompt him to submit some C source-code to the IF Archive.

Sure, and you can probably hack the machine-code file to switch to MODE 7 instead of MODE 6 because that's what I actually once did to the Elk version of Spy Snatcher. The only problem was that the game required an &E00 DFS, which is non-standard on a Model B (but not on a Master, on which my MODE7 hack of Spy Snatcher seemed to run fine (in BeebEm)).

So, ideally we'd still like to have standard &1900-DFS MODE7 versions of Spy Snatcher and Hezarin for the Beeb, but, as you say, their absence isn't *too* traumatizing, given that we do have Elk versions.

I have found a new adventure game in "Computer Projects" by Piccolo books.The only trouble is it needs typing in Does anyone have access to a scanner and could do some OCR on it?I have photographed the listing here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!An_TvEOp-wxGhHSSr4U-cFqEet8a

leenew wrote:I have found a new adventure game in "Computer Projects" by Piccolo books. The only trouble is it needs typing in Does anyone have access to a scanner and could do some OCR on it? I have photographed the listing here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!An_TvEOp-wxGhHSSr4U-cFqEet8a

Here are two different attempts at OCRing your photos (in Adobe Acrobat):

fuzzel wrote:I've just read the review of Hezarin in the November 1990 issue of the Micro User and found it came with the Last Days of Doom.As the Last Days of Doom is available as a download I just wondered why Hezarin isn't ? Reading the review it sounds like a big miss.....

Just found this in my Last Days of Doom case, explains why I've not got it, at least!

billcarr2005 wrote:Just found this in my Last Days of Doom case, explains why I've not got it, at least! ... HEZARIN.jpg

Interesting! Thanks.

Wonder if this adds weight to the theory that Hezarin was advertised for the Beeb but never actually released? (See various other threads on this forum for more details!) (Btw, an Electron version has already been found.)